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Once the scandal with the Catholic Church hit the mainstream, society was clubbed in the face with a problem that makes people so uneasy that they'd rather ignore it than try to solve it. Now it's being addressed full force since it can't be swept back under the rug. In addition to this, thanks to the news coverage, victims can see that others like them are not targets of retribution as they had been told to believe they would be, and are more willing to speak out.
The growing proliferation of p2p networks and communications among today's youth has brought the youth-orinted technology market close to saturation. At the same time, those who prey on children are adopting this technology as part of society, some for the purpose of carrying out their activities on a large scale and some adopting technology for other reasons and subsequently realizing that it can be used to achieve their goals. This is not necessarily to blame for this trend, but it makes it easier for those with ill intentions to carry out actions based on those intentions and to find others who share their perversion.
At the same time, law enforcement agencies are observing the trends of criminal behavior, and these trends lead them to uncharted territory that is not subject to the same regulations as prior technologies, and can use this to their advantage. The cloak of anonymity on the internte works both ways. While a pedophile has less chance of being discovered than one who dealt in hard copies of child porn, law enforcement officers can use this mask to protect themselves and infiltrate a subculture by pretending to be a child rather than having to stay in the shadows.
I think I've responded to your points, although not necessarily in order, with the exception to the seventh. We are not yet secluded to the point of arrested development, and "shaved" trend can be explained by the fact that some of us just don't like hair, no matter what the age of a woman.
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